Read article 'All systems go for the High-Luminosity LHC'
On 19 September, the European Investment Bank (EIB) signed a 250 million Swiss francs (€230 million) credit facility with CERN in order to finance the High-Luminosity Large Hadron Collider (HL-L...
Read article 'First physics at HIE-ISOLDE begins'
In early September, the first physics experiment using radioactive beams from the newly upgraded ISOLDE facility got under way: a study of tin, which is a special element because it has two double mag...
Read article 'Three-year extension for open-access initiative'
In September, following three years of successful operation and growth, CERN announced the continuation of the global SCOAP3 open-access initiative for at least three more years. SCOAP3 (Sponsoring Co...
Read article 'LUX-ZEPLIN passes approval milestone'
A next-generation dark-matter detector in the US called LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ), which will be at least 100 times more sensitive than its predecessor, is on schedule to begin its deep-underground hunt for WIM...
Read article 'Large beams take LHC physics forward'
Usually, the motto of the LHC operations team is “maximum luminosity”. For a few days per year, however, this motto is put aside to run the machine at very low luminosity. The aim is to pr...
Read article 'ATLAS homes in on Higgs-quark couplings'
The two heaviest quarks, the bottom and top, are particularly interesting because they have the largest couplings to the Higgs boson.
Read article 'CMS investigates the width of the top quark'
Twenty years after its discovery at the Tevatron collider at Fermilab, interest in studying the top quark at the LHC is higher than ever.
Read article 'LHCb targets new source of CP violation'
The LHCb collaboration presented new results at the 8th International Workshop on Charm Physics (Charm 2016), which took place in Bologna on 5 to 9 September. Among various novelties, the collaboratio...
Read article 'ALICE explores shear viscosity in QCD matter'
One of the key goals in exploring the properties of QCD matter is to pin down the temperature dependence of the shear-viscosity to entropy-density ratio (η/s). In the limit of a weakly interactin...
Read article 'Gaia compiles largest ever stellar survey'
On 13 September, 1000 days after the satellite’s launch, the Gaia team published a preliminary catalogue of more than a billion stars.
